Turning on the shower in the hotel room gives us piping hot water instantly. However, to brush our teeth, we have to wait a minute for the cold water to filter through and mix with the hot to make it tolerable. All of this and there are no hot water heaters anywhere in the city.
Hot water from geothermal vents is piped to heat the entire city during winter, including the streets and pavement downtown in the winter. To claims that hot water is wasted in Iceland, they say that the water gotten from the molten core of the earth does not have to be returned because "the Devil does not want it back".
Today we went to the lighthouse. Robert saw Puffins flying south, but I did not see them. There were huge mats of seaweed on the beach. And there were lots of Arctic Terns nesting in the grass. This is a picture that Robert took at 11:15pm from our hotel balcony. It is still light.
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We have had fun here in Reykjavik, but we are moving on to the west side of the island searching for even more birds and beautiful scenery.
-Berry
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